After the end of slavery, what African product from sub-Saharan Africa became an important source of wealth?
a. Cotton
b. Diamonds
c. Gold
d. Furs
e. Palm oil
e
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Which of the following was true of the 1936 Flint strike?
A) Both men and women participated in the strike. B) FDR sent in federal troops to end the strike. C) The governor of Michigan sent in National Guard troops to end the strike. D) The strike was led by U.S. Steel workers.
What agreement did Congress come to in the Missouri Compromise?
A) With the admission of each additional slave state, a free state would also be admitted. B) The question of abolishing slavery would be put off until 1850. C) Missouri would be admitted as a slave state, but no additional slave states would be allowed in the Union. D) Land to the north of a certain latitude would be free, and land to the south would be slave territory. E) Land gained by the Louisiana Purchase would be slave territory, but any additional territory would be free.
At the Yalta Conference, it was agreed that ________
A) Germany would be divided into four zones following the war B) the Allied invasion would go through France C) the Soviet Union would have a free hand in eastern Europe D) Poland would be reconstructed
The suppression of the international slave trade after 1807 led to
a. an expansion in the internal slave trade in the United States. b. the elimination of all slave importations into the United States. c. the rapid demise of slavery in the Caribbean and South America. d. a complete reliance on natural population growth to augment the slave labor force of the cotton-growing regions. e. the widely accepted practice of forced "breeding" of slaves.